7:4 The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the Lord.
10:1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in 4 Shechem to make Rehoboam 5 king.
1 sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
2 sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning.
3 tn Heb “Solomon declared to her all her words; there was not a word hidden from the king which he did not declare to her.” If riddles are specifically in view (see v. 1), then one might translate, “Solomon explained to her all her riddles; there was no riddle too complex for the king.”
4 tn Heb “come [to].”
5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “They sent and called for him.”
7 tn Heb “in his intestines with an illness [for which] there was no healer.”